In case you couldn’t quite gauge his feelings towards this news, Besson added a smiley.
The film, which is based on a French graphic novel and set in the twenty-eighth century, will also star Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen and Dane DeHaan. It will be Rihanna’s third major movie role, following appearances in this year’s Home and 2012’s Battleship.
The singer is also preparing to release her eight album, Anti. Earlier this month she revealed the cover art for it, which features a message written in Braille. She said: “The whole idea behind the Braille is that people who have sight are sometimes the people who are blindest.”